Shadowing ministers: Monitoring partners in coalition governments

Comparative Political Studies

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 220-236

  Carroll, Royce ^a   Cox, Gary W ^b  

^a RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

coalitions; delegation; legislatures; parliamentary committees

Indexed keywords

EID: 84856480504     PISSN: 00104140     EISSN: 15523829     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0010414011421309     Document Type: Article

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